Posts Tagged ‘destruction’

The Worst Mistake in U.S. History
America Will Never Recover from Bush's Great Foreign Policy Disaster
By Peter Van Buren in Tom's Dispatch
Ten years ago, George Bush made a decision that this country will regret for a very long time.
Iraq: Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com
March 7, 2013 |
I was there. And “there” was nowhere. And nowhere was the place to be if you wanted to see the signs of end times for the American Empire up close. It was the place to be if you wanted to see
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Warriors of the Rainbow
Last century an old wise woman of the Cree Indian nation, named "Eyes of Fire", had a vision of the future. She prophesied that one day, because of the white mans' or Yo-ne-gis' greed, there would come a time, when the earth being ravaged and polluted, the forests being destroyed, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, the fish being poisoned in the streams, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to
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Investigative reporter Greg Palast, best known for uncovering the alleged fraud in Florida in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, followed the footprints of corporations such as BP and Exxon all over the world and uncovered the intricate connections between power, energy and resources. His new book, Vultures' Picnic, takes on corporate power in the energy industry.
In this video, he talks to The Nation's John Nichols about his book and how investigative reporting is suppressed by
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